Sean Barrett wrote:
A collegue of mine is named Moamer Qazafi -- which may not look controversial at first glance, but it is simply another way to transliterate the name of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Would you ban him simply because his name has an unfortunate and not particularly humorous similarity to that of a tyrant?
Transliteration problem merely permute the opportunities for mischief as in Usama or Osama, bin or ben, Ladin or Laden. That alone gives us 8 possible names.
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